I gravitate to the mysterious characters, their unknown past, their solitary nature, only to surprise everyone later.

"We call him Dutch, ma'am, for that is where he says he came from. He showed up in the village three years ago, ma'am. We know him to be a good fellow, he kept to himself, never saying much about why or how he came to the village. And being as most the folk round here have a past that is best forgotten, we never asked. It is our way, ma'am, for the past is the past and it shall never be again."